Armed organs of the GDR
As armed organs of the GDR were referred to the whole of the armed and security forces of the German Democratic Republic .
Components
The armed organs were subordinate to various ministries :
The Ministry of National Defense (MfNV) was responsible for:
- National People's Army (NVA)
- Border troops of the GDR (GT)
- Civil defense of the GDR (ZV of the GDR)
Subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior :
- German People's Police (DVP)
- Barracked units of the MdI (Bepo)
- Transport Police (Trapo)
- Working-class combat groups - subordinate to the Central Committee of the SED , trained by DVP
- Barracked People's Police (KVP) - merged with the NVA in 1956
The Ministry for State Security (MfS) was one of the armed organs.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade :
- the armed and appropriately trained forces of the customs administration .
Employment relationships of relatives
Service in the armed organs was considered military service , except in the branches of the People's Police, but had to be performed at least for the duration of basic military service.
Members of the armed organs were entitled to above-average pay and pensions. They were also granted special discounts. As a rule, the remuneration of members of the armed organs included remuneration based on rank, position and seniority.
The German taxpayer finances the supplementary pensions of the former members of the "armed organs" of the GDR with 1.5 billion euros annually (as of 2007, rising). In the 2016 federal budget, almost 2 billion euros are earmarked for the special pension systems.
Origin and use of the term
Like the organizational interweaving of intelligence services , police and military depicted in it, the term was modeled on the Soviet model. Even if the term thus officially encompassed the entirety of the forces deployed for national defense and internal order and armed with weapons , colloquially it was mostly used only in relation to the NVA.
literature
- Torsten Diedrich (Ed.): In the service of the party, manual of the armed organs of the GDR (= research on GDR society ). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, 2nd revised edition, Links, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 .
- Joachim Nawrocki : Armed organs in the GDR . National People's Army and other military and paramilitary organizations; Structure, armament, tasks; Reports from everyday life. Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-921226-07-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Memoirs of the Technology and Armament Department of the Ministry of National Defense. Development, tasks, structure, working method and problems. (PDF; 234 kB) Lieutenant General a. D. Dipl.-Ök. Ulrich Gall, accessed December 28, 2011 .
- ^ Determination of pension entitlements and entitlements from a special pension system of the armed organs of the former GDR. (No longer available online.) Federal Office of Administration, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 26, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Decree of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic on active military service in the National People's Army. (Service career regulations) of January 24, 1962. Council of State of the German Democratic Republic, accessed on March 26, 2009 .
- ↑ Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR - A dictionary. Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016427-2 , p. 26.
- ↑ salary. Peter Veith, accessed March 26, 2009 .
- ^ Salary 1982. Peter Kieschnick, accessed on March 26, 2009 .
- ^ Sven F. Kellerhoff: Stasi: The unholy wrath of the red spies. In: welt.de . June 13, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ chap. 6067 Title group 04. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- ↑ Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR - A dictionary. Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016427-2 , p. 26.
